The Hollywood depictions are certainly laughable, but I'm not sure that editor familiarity is a reasonable target to be included here. Sure, being familiar with one's tools is not directly about programming itself, but it does, in so many cases, have a positive correlation to being a capable and passionate programmer.
People who touch type fast and use Vim keybindings every day are far more likely to be people who are really interested in the craft of programming, so that they actually went out and spent their own spare time to learn the skills. Would you trust somebody who types very slowly with only two index fingers to be a great programmer? Very unlikely I'd say. The same goes for how you wouldn't trust a carpenter who has all his saws rusty.
This piece does a reasonable job in explaining programming to beginners but one might have gone a bit overboard here. I also remember reading from a prominent programmer that great (some say "10x") programmers for a language are great largely because they are so familiar with that language that they've internalized the API, libraries, documentation etc. Those factors are all very relevant to programmer efficiency.
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The Hollywood depictions are certainly laughable, but I'm not sure that editor familiarity is a reasonable target to be included here. Sure, being familiar with one's tools is not directly about programming itself, but it does, in so many cases, have a positive correlation to being a capable and passionate programmer.
People who touch type fast and use Vim keybindings every day are far more likely to be people who are really interested in the craft of programming, so that they actually went out and spent their own spare time to learn the skills. Would you trust somebody who types very slowly with only two index fingers to be a great programmer? Very unlikely I'd say. The same goes for how you wouldn't trust a carpenter who has all his saws rusty.
This piece does a reasonable job in explaining programming to beginners but one might have gone a bit overboard here. I also remember reading from a prominent programmer that great (some say "10x") programmers for a language are great largely because they are so familiar with that language that they've internalized the API, libraries, documentation etc. Those factors are all very relevant to programmer efficiency.